while one was a CIA op enriching the Mexican cartels and the the other a memetic emergence supported by big pharma, what they both share is that there were deep unmet needs in both groups receptive to these pharmaceutical hooks
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RT @Lur_King02
@CandygirlLittle @coldhealing Hormones went through the quirky nerd community like crack did to black neighbourhoods in the 80s
https://twitter.com/Lur_King02/status/1605085529007349760

in the latter, economic disenfranchisement & sociopolitical resentment

in the former, biomemetic disenfranchisement & resentment

well-adjusted people don't seek out chemical solutions to their problems; the question is whether the situation should be adjusted to or altered

so, what sort of maladjustment leads to endocrine intervention? psychic tension generated from a mismatch between sex (biology) and gender (memetics); a perceived or desired social role at odds with one's biological fate

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RT @pee_zombie
we've been discussing for years how gender roles are taught to us by society, how we're pressured to adopt & perform them, how people can feel distress due to their inability/unwillingness to fit the…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1368421308757852163

this alone isn't enough; there's also the archetypal nerd's sensitivity to memes & proficiency at symbolic manipulation

this memetic pathway shows them a way out of the quandary, adding a new degree of identity freedom, a dimension along which they can move to get unstuck

this very memetic sensitivity is what enables the viral aspects of the spread of HRT; the maladjustment itself is not enough. this additional factor is what differentiates this phenomenon from the spread of crack, which had to be artificially driven

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RT @pee_zombie
@qorprate I use hijacking to indicate not that there's an agency causing this, but rather that acquiring certain memes is not always intentional or consensual; consider h…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1368601092297273350